Few NRSA members likely to quit to fight election: Alongkorn
By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- National Reform Steering Assembly vice chairman Alongkorn Ponlaboot said on Tuesday he expected few NRSA members would resign from their posts to contest the coming election.

 

The Palace has scheduled the royal endorsement of the new charter on Thursday, which would then take effect and kick-start other procedures including promulgation of other organic laws, paving the way for the election.

 

Under the charter, members of the NRSA or of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) must resign from their posts within 90 days to be able to contest the election after the promulgation.

 

Alongkorn said the NRSA still had a task to complete before finishing its term. Under the new charter, they would be discharged within four months after the new reform law takes effect following promulgation, he said.

 

It would also take some time before the mechanisms under the new reform law were put in place, and the NRSA’s work under the government’s supreme committee on reform, reconciliation, and national strategy would continue until then, he added.

 

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It is won on a popular  populist vote. I suspect they won't resign either. 

 

 

Edited April 4, 20179 yr by djjamie

I thought there was some regulation meaning anyone on the NLA or other bodies were not allowed to hold political positions going forward for a period of time. Possibly i am confusing this with something else though.

Who would be dumb enough to jump off the gravy train

The article says, fairly lucidly, that the time for an election could be quite a way off, so any members will have plenty of time to resign and then run for office.

They're pulling down 115,000 baht/month (plus per meeting payments) and they can employ five family members as "staff".

 

Why quit that job to dirty oneself as a "politician"? Plus, maybe the NRSA can become a permanent body to "help" any "elected" government with continuing "reforms".